Bildnis des Landschaftsmalers Caspar Rahn

c. 1795

not on display

Heinrich Freudweiler1755 Zürich – 1795 Zürich

Johann Caspar Rahn was born in Zurich in 1769 and died in Warsaw in 1840. This was the beginning of the young landscape painter and draughtsman's career, which took him to Rome for several years and later, after a stay in Switzerland, to Vienna. Waterfalls are a recurring motif in the oeuvre of the painter, who was enthusiastic about Ruisdael and whose style is characterised by fidelity to nature.In: Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft (ed.), edited by Christian Klemm, Franziska Lentzsch, Gian Casper Bott et al., Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2007.

Also known as

Portrait of Landscape Painter Caspar Rahn

Medium

Oil on panel

Dimensions

image: 14 x 11 cm

Inventory number

Credit line

Kunsthaus Zürich, Donated by the artist Chr. G. Oberkogler, 1837

Signature

Inscriptions

Accession year

1837

Provenance

Heinrich Freudweiler (*1755 Zürich, +1795 Zürich) (Künstler/-in)
Verbleib unbekannt
o.D. – 1837, G. Oberkogler (Sammler/-in)
ab 1837, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (Museum), Zürich, Geschenk

About the provenance

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Literature (general)

- Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft et al., Sammlungskatalog, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007, S. 76.

Object type

painting

Classification

B 1[1] painting 16th to 18th century CHE

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